Not related to Associated Motor Industries Sdn Bhd of Malaysia or the fictional
National Motors Corporation.
Associated Motor Industries of Dayton, Ohio, was founded in 1922. It was a merger of a number of existing automobile, truck, and parts manufacturers with the intention of standardising production and obtaining
economies of scale
In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation, and are typically measured by the amount of output produced per unit of time. A decrease in cost per unit of output enables ...
. The company was renamed the National Motors Corporation in 1923. By 1924 it had ceased production.
Merged companies
The companies initially involved were:
*
National Motor Car and Vehicle Corporation, Indianapolis
* Covert Gear Corporation, Lockport, New York - transmission and clutch makers
* Recording and Computing Machines Company, Dayton, Ohio - ignition, magneto, starter, battery and generator manufacturers
*
Jackson Motors Corporation, Jackson, Michigan
*
Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company
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, Louisville, Kentucky - manufacturer of the Dixie Flyer
* Saginaw Sheet Metal Works, Saginaw, Michigan
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Traffic Motor Truck Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri
* Murray-Tregurtha Corporation, Boston, Mass - manufacturers of gasoline engines
*
H F Holbrook Company, New York - manufacturers of automobile bodies.
Company directors
The company officers were:
* Wilfred I Ohmer, Chairman of the Board -
Recording and Computing Machines Company
* Louis Ruthenburg of Dayton, President - former General Manager of General Motors
Delco Light plant
* Vice-Presidents
** Alwin (or Alvin) A Gloetzner, Lockport, New York - Covert Gear Corporation
** Robert V Board, Louisville, Kentucky - Kentucky Wagon Works
** Thoedore C Brandle, St Louis, Missouri - Traffic Motor Truck Corporation
** George M Dickson, Indianapolis - National Motor Car
*Other Directors
** James R Duffin, Louisville - attorney
**
Harry G. Stoddard
Harry Galpin Stoddard (September 13, 1873 – May 21, 1969) was an American businessman who became president of Wyman & Gordon, a major industrial concern, in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. He was also part owner of the ''Worcester Tel ...
, Worcester, Mass of
Wyman-Gordon
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** H V Hale, Saginaw, Michigan - Saginaw Sheet Metal Works
** H J Linkert, Dayton
** C L Halliday, Jackson, Michigan
** W W Sterling, Jackson
** C L V Exselsen, Chicago
** Guy Wilson, St Louis - Traffic Motor Truck Corporation
** Buell Hollister, New York
** H F Hollister, New York
** M Douglas Flattery, Boston
Mission statement
At its commencement, the company stated that it intended to reduce prices without reducing wages, provide $35 million in dealers’ finance funding, employ 20 000 skilled mechanics, continue manufacturing all existing makes in greater numbers, and freight free anywhere east of the Rocky Mountains.
[$80,000,000 merger of auto companies, New York Times, 2 July 1922]
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Defunct manufacturing companies based in Ohio
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